“DOWN TOSLEEP." November woods are bare and still; November days are clear and bright : Each noon burns up the morning's chill; The morning's snow is gone by n'ght Each day my steps grow slow, grow light, As through the woods I reverent creep, Watching all things lie “down to sleep.” I never knew befors what beads, Fragrant to smell, aud soft to touch, The forest sifts and shapes and spreads; I never knew before how much Of human sound there is in such Low tones as throagh the forest sweep When all wild things lie “down to sleep.” Each day I find new coverlids Tucked in, and more sweet eyes shut tight; Sometimes the viewless mo’ her bids Her ferns kneel down, full in my sight; 1 hear their chorus of “good night} And half I smile, and hall [ weep, - Listening while they lie “down to sleep. November woods are bare and st{i!; November days are height and : Life's noes barns up life's morning ehill; Life's might rests feet which long have stood ; Some warm, soft bed, in fleid or wood, The mother will not fall to keep, = Where we can lay us “down tosleep. nH THE HAUNTED VIOLIN. TRANSLATED BY ISABEL SMITHSON, Karl Hafitz had devoted six years to the study of counterpoint and to the works of Haydn, Gluck, Mozart, Beet- hoven and Rossini; he was blessed with good health, and an ample fortune en- abled him to indulge his artistic tastes; in fact, "he possessed every requisite for the production of great musical compositions, excepting the indispen- sable one—inspiration. Every day or two he presented him- self, full teacher Albertus Kilian, and displayed a large score, which was indeed har- the hearer of some other composition. Master Albertus, seated in his great arm-chair with his feet on the andirons, his elbow on the table, and a pipe in his mouth, calmly struck out phrase after phrase of his pupil's work, and when Karl, almost crying with wvexa- tion, exclaimed and objected, the old man quietly opened one of his number- less musie- books, pointed toa passage and said. “Look here, my boy." Then Karl bowed his head and felt like giving up in despair. One morning, however, he brought fantasia of Baccherini with variations from Viotti, and the master’s patience gave out completely. “Karl Hafitz, do you fake me fora donkey?” he cried; ‘do you suppose that I cannot see through your urn- worthy thefts? Really, this is too much!” Then, seeing consternation mn know how it is Karl, your memory cheats you—you mistake recollection for invention. The trouble is, you are too fat; the wine you drink is so good and all your fare so rich that your in- tellect is dulled. You must starve yourself.” “Starve!” repeated the pupil in as tonishment. “Or else give up music,” said his master, ‘science you have, but ideas are uaing, and that is not to be won- dered =, or awn your violin resis upon a heap of fat, how can you expect the strings to vibrate?” A look of intelligence gleamed in Earls eyes, and he exclaimed earn- ly. “[ will not shrink from any sacrifice, I will grow thin, at all costs, even though 1 become consumptive.” bertus embraced his pupil in delight, and bade him God , and the next day, Karl Hafitz set out, bag ana staff in hand, to take a long journey. He walked all over Switzerland, but at end of six weeks, in spite of a consider- able reduction 1n his weight, tion was as far from him as before, *“Who could be more miserable than I?” he thought, ‘“‘neither fasting nor feasting makes my spirit rise to the diapason of the sabli What have I done to deserve such a cruel fate? A lot of lazy idiots are able to produce musical works while I, with all wy science, my work and my courage amount to nothing. Ah, is un- just} He was now walking along the road between Bruck and Friboure; night was coming on, and the traveller was ready to drop mith Saddenly be saw in the moonlight an old tum- ble-down with ernmbling chim- neys, a disjointed door, and broken window-panes. The wind eame howl. ing desolately over the surroun heath, and rustied the brambles thistles that grew ronnd the door. “It does not look very inviti in fact, quite the Sout, Aeaticvry Jey “but one must not judge by a - ances,” and without a moment's Einit tion he Haphed at the door, “Who is there? What do you asked a gruff voice from wi *f want supper and a night's lodg- want?” next minute the door opened, anda grey-haired man appeared. Oo wee wrapped in a large cloak and held a large hatchet in one hand and behind him, the fire-light displayed the bare broken walls of the roon, and a ladder leading to the loft obove. ng cotton ing n, hoe black ayes which were upon the , WOTS AD express jon of min, fear and sadness. “Come in,” said the man, ‘it is not the weather for in the door: way.” firmly, bat “You have no cheese even?” *No, Sir.” “Nor butter?” “No." “Nor bread-nor milk?" “No.” “What on earth have you, then?" “Nothing, Sir, excepting a few roast potatoes,” A% that moment, Karl eaught sight of a whole family of hens 100sting on the rungs of the ladder; there were white, black and red hens, some with their heads under their wings, others with their heads sunken in their feathers, busily pluming itself. “Surely you have eggs!” said the hnngry traveller, but the landlord an- ey “We took them all to market at Bruck this morning.” “Then cook one of your fowls—*‘be- gan Karl, but he bad hardly uttered the words when the young girl rushed foward the ladder, her face paler than over, and her hair dishevell “No, no!” she cried ‘you shall not touch my hens—you shall not kill God's creatures.” Her voice and look were so wild that { “No, of course we must not them. We can eat potatoes—I am de- | voted to potatoes,” and after a moment | he added eagerly, “My good man, I | will stay here for along time; this is | just the place I have been seeking, I { will stay three months,—six months— I am thin as a fakir!’ | He was so excited that the old man stared at him in wonder, and then i whispezad to the girl: { “1.00 has taken possession of him!" ney and scent a column of gray smoke to the ceiling; the hens seemed to be dancing on the ladder, and the girl be- gan to sing a quaint tone in a wild piercing voice, while the green wood in the fire seemed to shed tears as it ac- companied her with its plaintive sighs. Karl Hafitz decided that he had got into a sorcerer’s den, but he ate two large potatoes and drank water out of ared jug, and then he perceived that the girl bad disappeared. “Now I will go to bed,” he said after a pause and his host lighted a lamp and led the way up the ladder, opening the trap-door with his head. “There is your bed,” said the old man when they had entered a garret under the sloping roof, ‘sleep well, and take care not to set the house on fire.” | He put the lamp on the floor, and ' and Hafitz sat down on the great feath- er bed, and reflected. He wondered if it would be prudent to allow him- self to fall eep in this strange abode, and was recalling to his ' mind the hollow grey eyes, thin bluish {lips surrounded by deep wrinkles, spare long forehead and sallow skin of his host, when it saddenly oceur- red to him that, sa few days before, he bad passed on the road three g b- bets and that the face of one of the swiug- | ing corpses bore a strong resemblance | to the man who had just left him. He had learned that the wretched crea- ; ture’s name was Melchior, that he had been a musician, and that he had killed in a fit of an an inn-keeper who had , insisted on payment of a few crowns | due am, | Karl Hafitz had often played Mel- chior’s Sompouitions and been so | fascinated by their fantastic beauty that he had envied him his genius Now, however, a shudder passed over kim, and he seemed to look once more jon the ghastly figure swinging in the { wind with garments fluttering, and a it. Asheg fully old violin hanging ou the wall, and | surmounted by two withered palm branches. At the sight a sort of paais seized him, and he bad started up as If to By from the place when he heard the gruff voice of his host i “Put out the light, and go to sleep! You will burn the house down!” Hurriedly Karl obeyed, and then threw himself upon the bed, resolvi however, that he would not close h eyes. The wind moaned Jitecusly, night-birds called to each in darkness, little mice crept out alon the worm eaten floor, and in spite o | his determination Karl was lulled into i slumber, At one o'clock in the morning he was suddenly awakened ty hearing a deep bitter sob, and a cold sweat broke | out upon his face as he started up and looked towards the end of the loft | There, under the sloping roof,a man was Crouching. It was Melchior, the mur- { derer! His chest and neck were bare, ' and his black hair was falling over his : ; be was so thin that he lool like the skeleton of a , grasshopper; a moonbeam that | $hrough the dormer window gave him a bluish hue, and all around him hung the spiders’ broad webs, While Karl in silent awe and wonder, the skeleton stretched out a | long gaunt arm, and seizing the violin . from the wall laid it against his shoul. , der and began to play. | Abfirst the masic was funereal—sad as the sound of the earth falling upon | the coffin of a beloved one; solemn as round him half fear- ! ——— While he was speaking a harsh voice from below cried out: “What is the matter with yon, up there? Are you ill, or is the house on | fire?” | There was a sound of heavy footsteps | | on the ladder, a light shone through! i the cracks in the floor, the trap opened, and the old man appeared. i *Ah, my host, what does this mean?’ oried Karl, “sublime music raises me | to the seventh heaven one minute, and | | departs like a dream, the next!” The ! man was thoughtful for a few minutes and muttered half inandibly: “I ought to have foreseen it. Mel- chior has been here again—will he al- ways return?” Then he added, “‘come, friend, you will get no more sleep to- j night; come down and smoke a pipe with me.” | Karl needed no urging, but harried: i ly went down the ladder, and sitting | with his elbows on bis knees and his head in his hands was soon lost ine reverie, while the old man rekindled the fire and taking his seat on the other side of the hearth smoked his pipe in silence. At last the gray dawn peered in through the tiny windows, the cock erowed, and the hens gravely hopped ' down the ladder, one step at a time, ! I'he traveller buckled on his bag, took up his stick, and asked of his host: | “What do I owe you?” With a strange look the man replied: “Yon owe me one prayer in the ehapel of St. Blaise for the soul of my son, Melchi-r, who was hanged, and another prayer for his betrothed wife, | Genevra, mad with grief.” “Is that ali?” “That is all.” “Farewell then, I shall not forget.” “I'rue to his word Karl went straight | tothe chapel in Friboarg, and prayed | for the unhappy artist and for the wo- | man who loved him. Then he hurried . to an inn, called for a bottle of wine, | spread ont his music paper, wrote at | the top of the first page, Tur HavNTED | Vionix, and completed at one sitting, | his first ova ul musical ecomposi- | tion. EnceMans CHATRIAN, PECULIAR ANIMALS. Burdette Subscribes to the Truth, of This Account. | A writer in Harper's Magazine says | that a horse when tied in the stable should “always be kopt with his head | #0 that he may see the passers by and : the other horses, and thus amuse and occupy himsell.” That is a good plan, ; says Bob Burdette, but I think mine is | still better. [I have never noticed him | “politely passing hay" to the other horses in the stable, but possibly that is because there are no other horses. ! I have frequently obser: ed him divid- | ing his outs with the hens, which is] much the same thing.” And be has the hay fever, justlike *folks.” Yes, in- deed. Butl was going to speak about making provision for his hours in the | stable. When he is to be lelt alone any length of time, we always place | the morning paper, a copy of the Na- | tion and a late inagazine or two in his i feed box, and he looks over them with great interest. On one occasion he seo plainly resented my taking away a late magazine, a number containing | 1 3 some wouaderful stories about real dogs | which I wished to show to the terra cotia pug, that I looked to see what article so deeply interested the noble animal. I found he was in the midst of | a bright sketch of travel in the * ‘Feed { yo islands.” Don't tell me a horse | hasn't human intelligence. The fact is, | the people who sneer at these stories , of the remarkable intelligence of ani- ' mals are coarse and unintelligent peo- le, who know nothing about animals more people study their brute companions, the more clearly and cor rectly do they understand, neigh, com prehend them. Look at the wild In. dian; what he doesn't kmow about horses fsa’t worth knowing. Aad he believes his horses will 10 heaven with him. Whether the believes that the Indian will go ta heaven or not, we have no means as yel, of ae certaining. This horse of wine Iam conhdent, has opinions on ftw subject, because one of his favorita books is “Barns 'n’ Oats on Timothy ™ He is however, 1 grieve to say, 4 heartless sort of brute; the sound of whos never moves him. Like all well bred horses, he has a certain sense of humor, and one day, when my little boy quoted, in bis presence, the line, ‘How tall was Alexander, Pal” the itisiligeut animal immediately lied, “Box stall” and burst into a Borse Upon one occasion, when everyth on the road had passed us, I overh him saying to himself, softly, “It pace togosiow.” He isa horse of content ed disposition, although sorrow has left har traces along his ribs. I had to got the rest of the harness myself Gare Himself Away. ‘ in absconder from Mississippl got as far as Niagara Falls without leaving any trail to be picked up. In the bridge to Goat Island that taost of the asses in America had cut or written thelr names on the wood worl, and he put his there for colmpany and was od up next day —Time. : THE STORY OF THANKSGIVING, ] ‘And therefore I, William Bradford (by the grace of God to-day, And the franchise of this good people), Govern. or of Plymouth say, Through virtue of vested power,—ye shall gather with one accord, And hold, In the month of November, thanks. giving unto the Lord,” The Puritans suffered from famine after they came to this country. At last, after nearly a year of privation they gathered in their first harvest in the year 1622. They had twenty acres of corn, and six of barley and pease, and this was enough to supply them with food for a long time. Governor Bradford recommended that they gather together for the purpose of prayer and raise, and they concluded to have a east as well. Bo, grest preparations were made and the hunters went out into the forest to find meat for the dinner. They came back loaded down with venison and wild turkey. The Puritans did not forget the Indians, and they invited Massasoit and ninety of bis warriors to the feast. The year after there was a lon drought, the crops were stunted, an they seemed likely to starve to death. A fast day was appointed; for several honrs the people prayed without stop- ping, and the rdin began to fall while they prayed. The crops revived, and there was a plentiful harvest. Again, a day of thanksgiving was ordered by Governor Bradford. Bo, gradually the custom of appointing a thanksgiving day after harvest grew to be establish- ed, the appointments being made by the governors of the several colonies, During the revolution, a day of na tional thanksgiving was annually ree- After the appointed such a day, and several other presidents did the same. In 1863 Lincoln made a proclamation for national observance, and since then a proclamation has been issued each year, the last Thursday in November ing set aside as Thanksgiving day. Other nations also keep a day of thanksgiving. The Jewish feast of Tabernacles was a than day. For eight days not work, but spent ar- ing this they lived in booths made of branches of trees, and great public ceremonies were held, besides the Torship and sacrifices of each house- wold. hbe ancient Greeks held a great festival in honor of Demeter, the god- dens of the harvest, and the Romans also held a feast after harvest. Both Greeks and Bomans held their festivals in September. They had games and household gods with flowers | i Good Words To A Youny Man ————— — HENRY WARD BERCHER'S ADVICE TO | HIS BON, Los Angeles, Cal, Oct 4.--The fol- lowing letter from Henry Ward Beech- er to his son is declared on good suthor- ity never to have been published. It is reminiscent of the worldly good sense of the advice given to Laertes by Pol. onins, but it is also permeated by the ywed would produce a good man as! will as a gentleman. i Brooklyn, N.Y. Oct, 18, 1878, You are now for the first time really isnnched into life for yourself. You go from your father's house, and from all family connections, to make your own way in the world. It is a good time to make a new start, to cist out faults of whose evil you: have had sn experience, aud to take on habits the want of which you have found to be | 80 ng. | (1) Youn must not into debt, | Avold debt as you w the Devil Make it a fundamental rule: No debt— rash or Sothing. wes. Rehgiouns- (2.) Make few iy Ghtotve even smallest promise, | man who means to keep his promises cannot afford $0 make many. ! 3.) Be sermpuously careful in all | statements. and perfect frankness, no guesswork, Either noth- ty. (5.)Hold yourself responsible for a, i standard than saShody else ofyou. Demand more ou f than anybody else expects of yon, Keep your personal standard hi Never excuse yoursell to y f. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master | to S Journ f, but lenient to everybody else. (6.) Concentrate your foree on your business; do not turn off. Be constant, steadfast, ng. i) The art of maki one's fortune spend no 3 country any 1a 3astrions man rich if he stops all leaks ond io pot isnot in a hurry. Do not and customs, and a hundred things that : will be needful (12.) If by integrity, industry an? | well-earned success you deserve well o. your fellow citizens, they may in years | to come, ask you to accept honors. Do | not seek them, do not receive them while you are young—wait; but when you are established you maymake your father's name known with honor in Hulls of Legislation. Lastly, do not forget your father's and your mother's Go Beeause you will be largely de- | prived of church privileges, you need all the nerve to keep your heart before | God, But do not despiss small churches and humble preachers. “Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate.” Head often the Proverbs, the Testament. May your father’s God ge with you and protect you. HENKY WARD BEECHER, Household Art. Under this caption: Clara Bunce, the talented daughter of the late Oliver B, Bunce, chats agreeably and instructive. ly in Bunday’s Herald. Many useful snd practical hints on color and har. mony are given which will be found readily available. Speaking of the dull north side of a house, the writer says: As an example of what can be done to relieve the cold, dreary north side of its dreariness 8 window in Mer, Harry Fenn's house may well be de- scribed. In the large hall, into which all the bedrooms open, is a large win. Each pace differs from the next in some gradation of color, but throughout the who's is the har- The effect of this window, through which the real sun never shines, 18 to shed perpetual sun- shine, or at least the perfect semblance that on grayest days that hall has a message of brightoess and of good cheer for each and for all. It is hard- ly possible to say too much for the ex quisite quality of light diffused through a yellow medium. It is soft and at the same time it is bright. It is subdued, yet full of cheer. In few houses would it be possible to introdnce Mr. Fenn's glorious window, but in many is it possible to heed the lesson taught thereby and to profit by it. Many = cheerless and sunlese room could be made a delight to its oconpant were the windows but filled with panes of yellow tints. If it be allowable to judge by results the hint might be offered that plants, those devotees of the sunlight, are cheated by the feign- ed glow into a rich and rare bloom. At least such would seem to be the case, whether it is scientific or not, for the very window alluded to bears upon its ledge a wealth of luxuriant n Not only is yellow, in its many shades, an excellent substitute for sunshine, but it makes perhaps the best possible medium for shading the glare of either light. There is something about the light which passes through a restful, Barely the color that diffuses a glow and at the same time gives rest to weary eyes is deserving of general recognition. Longevity of Poets. Oliver Wendell Holmes writes: 1 said to Long eliow that certain statis- tical ables | had seen went to show that poets were not a long-lived race. He doubted whether there was any- thing to prove they were particularly short-lived. Soon after this, he handed me a list he had drawn up. I cannot lay my hand upon it at this moment, but I remember that Metastasio was the oldest of them all. He died st the age of eighty-four. 1 havo had some tables made out, which I have every reason to believe are correct so far as they go. From these, it appears that twenty English poets lived io the av- erage aff of fifty-six years and a little over. eight American poets on the list averaged seventy-three and a half, nearly, and they are not all dead et. The list including Greek, Latin, talian and German poets, with Ameri- can and English, gave an average of a little over sixty-two years. Our young poets need not be alarmed. They can remember that Bryant lived to be eighty-three years old, that Longfellow reached seventy-five and Halleck sev. enty-seven, while Whittier is living at the age of nearly eighty-two. Teanny- son is still writing st eighty, and Browning seems in flourishing health and vigor at seventy-seven. Furs are worn enormously, for en. tire garments, for linings, sud for trimming all sorts of dresses. A szanon for the oldest clergyman in England shows that Rev. John Kllio viear of Randwick, will be one hundr aud three months, He preached up to the age of ninety-eight Tefulasly and oceasionally last year, ° to church now regular . and ocoasionally visits ln. HYAPTLESS AFRICANS, The Uncivilized Native Utterly Devoid of Feeling. It is the utter absenos of ‘feeling” of sympathy for their kind, of pity for sugering, of all that is best in the heart of a white man, that jars so harshly on the sensibilities when one first comes That young warrior who has been making himself #0 agreeable about your tent, whose fine physique you have admired, and whose amiability has created a favor. able impression from the first will take part in a slave hunt to-morrow, He will think no more of jabbing his cause she Isn't worth bringing away than you would of killing a dog, nor balf so much. And that laughing young woman with the intelligent face and sym. metrical form, who wants you to buy her bunch of bananas, will see her sisters of a neighboring tribe brought in with their necks in heavy yokes, their babes clinging to their backs, their pickaninnies. following at their heels, bellowing with fright. She will know they are doomed to slavery, vever to see their homes again; she has heard exaggerated stories of the freadful march to the distant coast, of deaths on the way, of babes sold one way and mothers another. She thinks their fale ten Limes worse than it will in reality be, but she doesn’t care. Ia the stare of curiosile with which she greets the shackled wretches as they sre driven in there is not one glint of Aypaiiy or pity. On the contrary, she laughs and claps her hands, for has not her husband taken a prominent part in the raid, and may sne not therefore look confidently forward to coming In for a necklace or two of beads from the Swahili traders who will buy the slaves? She hopes that ter gallant warrior of a husband will rontinue to spear his fellow-Alricans, burn their houses, rip up their belp- less sand uomarketable old mothers, chop down their banasa groves and sell their wives and children into slavery until she shall become the most bead-bedecked womam in the tribe. —Bicycler Stevens. KING OF THE GYPSIES. He and His Ohlo Subjects are Live ing in Prosperity. A modest brick house standing a lit tle way back from the street in a suburb of the City of Dayton, O., is the property and for a part of the year the home of a gypsy of wide re- ute, the heir apparent to a throne in JAttle Egypt; and here, and bere sbout, is the rendezvous of a numer ous band or tribe. This settlement is widely known as the home of some of the richest and most influential fam- {lies of §Ypaydom, among them the Stanleys, of whom the present head, Levi, is called the on This Levi Stanley is a short heavy.set man of something over 70 years; he is still strong and active, with 2 ruddy cheek snd bright eye. Much of his time is passed with the traveling parties, while his oldest son, Levi, Jr, is a stalwart, bandsome man of 50, as sumes much of the active direction of wfairs, looking after property, ete. Lying scattered about to the north ot Dayton are many fine farms owned by them. At present most of the farms are in the hands of tenants, for how- sver near the Eypey may be to the primeval man, he has not yet develop- od a strong liking for the labor of the primey) occupation. e traveling and camping parties are the most Interesting and pictur saque feature of gypsy life These usually consist of a single family, the term family meaniog the whole blood connection. It may comprise one ora dozen wagons, and from three or four lo nearly hall a hundred people They make long or short journeys, as directed by the king, stopping at each place as long as the state of the horse sud palmistry trade warrants — “hautauguan. “Grant Bode Like & Demon.” ‘Speaking of Geseral Graat's fine borsemanship,” said General N. P. Backs, *veminds me of an incident that occurred soon after the battle of Port Hudson, in which he gave me the race of my life. General Grant paid the army under my command a visit at the period mentioned and was asked to review it. He brought with him no horses and I loaned him for the occa sion the magnifiaant bay horse which the patriotic citizens of Massa chusetts presented 10 me when I went to the front in 1862. All of my old soldiers will remember that bay horse. I rode on the review a thoroughbred black mare, and 1 was in a constant state of anxiety lest she would run away with me when warmed. Well, the troops were drawn up in line and we rode down the front lines at a slow », but when we reached the rear pace. Grant would put the bay at his utmost speed, and as he was nearly thoroughbred he could run. Gran) #at on the bay as if he were part ol him, but the difficulty I found myselt in was not to keep up at the regulation revent my animal ¢ general and ran fing off with me. Grant rode like a demon and I after him until the review